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| | I was just reading a blog that talked about one website that had its ranking affected by the fact that there were spam messages in the comment section of the website. Not only did the spam messages not pertain to the business but they were porn related. As many websites … |
| | i request help on this topic: MSN, Google and Yahoo Directory currently ignore on of my clients website. None of the other search engines seems to have trouble. The index.html is already in the three above. From there on, a cms is called through a frameset looking like this: frame … |
| | I just read that Google is offering SEO tips under the name Google Speed. I have only taken a cursory look at it but I have seen some other stories about it in other places that have been critical of the tips they provide or they just question the validity … |
| | In my reading I have seen some articles on Page Age and Link Age and for the most part the assessment is that older pages and older links will do better in page rankings because of their age. But they also state that at a certain point older becomes too … |
 | Hi Forums Members, I was just wondering have anyone every got their account closed, shutdown or banned for no reason at all. There have been people I have talked to who have had problems like this, which is very sad. These are people who have ran their businesses online, weather … |
| | I just read a blog post where the author states that to maximize your SEO efforts, and the benefits as well, the SEO specialist or team inside an organization should share the SEO strategy with a number of different parties within the enterprise so that everyone is working towards the … |
| | Bing has announced that they will include the twitter feeds for a few prominent twitterers in their search results. The result listing will show the most recent tweets by the person and a link for more. Will this cause companies to encourage employees to tweet more often to get into … |
| | [B]I just noticed that unlike wordpress blogs where most of them use nofollow, .NET blogs have dofollow in their comment section not only that most of the blogs approve your comments instantly and also there is practically no spams in these blogs which makes it very great for SEO. how … |
| | Short for search engine marketing, SEM is often used to describe acts associated with researching, submitting and positioning a Web site within search engines to achieve maximum exposure of your Web site. SEM includes things such as search engine optimization, paid listings and other search-engine related services and functions that … |
 | Hi There are lessons we have learned while doing internet marketing. Which lessons have you learned? I have learned: 1. NOT to create a website on Flash, especially the home page. 2. Becareful where you submit your links. 3. You can create the best website but if you dont plug … |
| | I was just reading a report of a speech given at SMX Advanced in Seattle where the speaker, Matt Cutts, stated that NoFollow links no longer conserve page rank but that they in some cases the evaporate it. The example given was as follows. You have Pagerank of 10 and … |
| | I decided to challenge myself and use Bing for a week. I encourage you to use Bing for a few days and report your experiences on this thread. I sure will. If you already have been using Bing, what are your experiences. |
| | Though many may find this page basic, I found it still provide insights. What do you think? [url]http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291[/url] |
| | Hello there SEO poeple, What is the best technique to become an effective and efficient SEO consultant? |
| | How often to you optimize your website to increase natural search visitors? Do you do it on an ad-hoc basis or consistently every week or quarter? |
| | Google has added a new function to the Google Maps app. It is called 'What's Here' and it when you search on a specific location and right click the map the menu allows you to select What's Here and then shows you various business in the area. Does anyone think … |
| | My PR just increased yesterday from PR 1 to PR 2. Lately I have been doing a lot of Social Bookmarking, which I am thinking was a factoring in raising my PR. New Goal = PR 3 by the end of the summer. :) |
| | GPI launches New Global Search Engine giving users 3x the search: by language, by country, and by search engine! WASHINGTON, DC, - April 21, 2009: Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of website, software and documentation translation services in over 100 languages, announced today that it has launched a new … |
| | I just read an interesting article about landing page optimization (LPO) and the author said that the best judge/gauge of your LPO strategy is conversion rate of visitors to the LP. This is a completely new concept to me and I was wondering if anyone is actively doing this type … |
| | Hello Friends, I have changed on my sites to do friendly URLs and I am not sure if they help to get more indexed on SeO or not. Do you use search engine friendly URLs for your sites? What is the results? Please share you advice. No advice is stupid. … |
| | I was wondering what your thoughts were about buying text links. Where is the best place to buy text links? Has anyone had any experience buying permanent text links? I'm actually more in favor of gaining links through article marketing, quality directories, and joint ventures but I'm always willing to … |
| | Hi Everyone, I want to exclude all files except one in robots.txt file. All my files in temp folder. The one file I want to allow is abc.html Can oneone please point out how to go about it. |
| | Hello everybody! please tell me something: the using of bbcodes is part of google optimization? increase the traffic? thanks a lot! |
| | Hello All, [U][I]I have my Robots.txt as[/I][/U] [CODE]User-agent: * Allow: / [/CODE] and used the "[B]Robots Meta Configuration[/B]" Plugin with settings as shown in the Attachment Then I ran the Tool to check my Robots.txt Syntax using some Robots.txt tool validator ( [url]http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml[/url] ). I got Errors. Could you please …  |
| | [B]I am trying to create a link between two of my clients websites but they don’t want them to be visible on either website. Is there a way I can do this but still have google recognise it as a link? Also When we have videos on our website from …  |
| | In regards to SEO, I think of the following metrics: 1. # of results per search engine in English 2. differences in # of results among various related keywords 3. different categories represented. 4. Where does your company fall under the first page, second page, and even third page or … |
| | One of my clients has asked me to set up two blogs, using WordPress, to discuss two vertical markets that the company has expertise in. As WordPress allows you to add pages to the blog that are more like standard webpages, he is planning on using the two blog sites … |
| | Hi It seems that the trend is that SEO techniques have Google in mind. But what about optimizing for the other search engines like Bing and Yahoo? |
| | All my backlinks in MSN are gone, is it because of the new search engine called "Bing"? Did microsoft change their algorithm? |
| | I just read a blog entry where the blogger attempts to make the case that Big Business (he refers to corporate world) does not engage in web 2.0 for a variety of reasons. I find the whole blog to be slightly suspect and I will explain why. First, he compares … |
| | One aspect of search engines that worry me is the privacy aspect. Search engines use this information for their behavioral targeting. Look at the grid on the cnet page. [URL="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6202068.html"]http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6202068.html[/URL] So has this issue of privacy ever impacted you on which search engine you will use? |
| | I freely admit, as my screen name points out, to being a marketer more than I am an SEOer. I began educating myself on SEO for two reasons. The first being that one can never have enough knowledge so that they can make themselves as valuable as possible to their … |
| | I was reading a blog post about optimizing internal links and the blog said that if you use drop down menus for site navigation you are hurting your SEO efforts. I would assume the blogger was advocating some sort of tree navigation but he does not say. I was wondering … |
 | Yay for Bing! They're sending me 3X the amount of traffic that MSN used to. It's LITERALLY MS flipping a little switch and sending me 3X the amount of traffic one day to the next. Did anyone else notice a huge increase/decrease when Microsoft flipped the switch? |
| | That's what happned to me recently just started working on new website with loaing time issues etc page rank dropped to 0 but then again in 16 days of efforts (on page , off page both) I got it back to 4 which was never 4 before. Visit the link … |
| | I was working for one site its PR was 0, and within 15 days there is a substantial increase in the “Page Rank Value” (PR) of website from 0 to 2. How can i view my previous page rank for my site. I want to know if there is any … |
| | The title of this DaniWeb article is misleading and the author needs to be careful of how "quoting" someone needs to be kept in context. Just because Steve Ballmer [B][I]"says"[/I][/B] Microsoft [B][I]"ceded"[/I][/B] Search to Google does not automatically or explicitly imply that Microsoft had a choice in whether they lost … |
| | As a seoer we know that the links have internal link and external link,but which one is more important? I think it is internal,you know it is easy to control and if your internal link are good,the pr will be transfer to other pages.The external link need time to build,and … |
| | Earlier this week, Opera announced that with the release of Opera 10 they are adding a new Technology called Opera Unite. According to the Opera website, "Opera Unite harnesses the power of today's fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, … |
| | Meta description tags are like a permanent 'Tweet' for your website when it appears in search results. The 3 majors SE's have different character limits but if you go with the shortest (google at 160) you are talking about a defining 'tweet' like statement that will be the first bit … |
| | Reading from another forum on this community, many bloggers disclosed their PageRank to be within the 0-2 range. Even for a blog I have that has not been updated often, the PageRank is 2. What is your blog's PageRank? Is it a business or personal blog? |
| | Is the following a good technique for improving 'how to link to us' pages? A well-known problem with link to us pages is that if you manage to get enough people visiting them and obeying the 'how to link to us' instructions, all your links (resulting from them) will be … |
| | In the search engine wars, Microsoft has been nowhere to be found when it comes to market share. In fact, they nearly spent over $40 billion to buy Yahoo which is a distant competitor to Google which owns about a 75% market share of searches. In the latest battle for … |
| | Last week Microsoft made available for download the latest IIS SEO toolkit Beta, another part of the larger Microsoft Web Platform Strategy. The three components are a Site Analysis Module, Robot Exclusion module and a Sitemaps and Site Indexes module. Microsoft states that the toolkit beta will 1. Improve website … |
 | Hi All, I have a travel site and it's 10 keywords are rank in top ten in Google and now i get the 20 new keywords for same site (all are not in Google ) if i again make changes in META then it will effect my previous keyword ranking … |
| | For people who use their blog to sell products, how exactly do you make it work? Do you have entries about each product discussing them, or do you blog about the general purpose/area of interest related to what you're selling, and then link to a "store" section on a different … |
| | [B]Does clicking up arrow in Google search results help YOUR page?[/B]  |
| | Anchor text is what we call text links. You should always try and have all text links as descriptive keywords. When a spider follows the link to your page it should have an understanding of the content. Anchor text is a great way of improving your rankings on competitive keywords. |
| | Hi every body, I have question : It is good or not if the title tag and the meta description tags have the same meaning or description.. for example : <TITLE> Learning about SEO <TITLE> and my description tags <META NAME="description" content="learning about SEO"> Is any body can explain to … |
| | I have been told that a keyword-rich title tag is the key to SEO excess but the latest I have read about seems to be both logical and so stupidly simple that I was curious if anyone had heard of it or even tried it. The suggestion in the piece … |
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